Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-02-25


am for it, although l don't care to
say so openly, as people will say
that I am Afriend of gambling.
Yours,
The name is omitted by re-
quest.
Ed. APPEAL:-Did it ever occur
to you to ask the men who vote
against the Lottery bill if they
haven't themselves been investors
in the lottery, and are down on lot
teries because they don't draw
prizes?
A WOMAN WHO BUYS TICKETS.
These are few of the letters re-
ceived at this Office during the past
few days.
The San Francisco Report says:
A correspondent, whose kletter is
printed in another column, suggests
that if California cannot prevent
its citizens annually sending mil
lions of dollars to Louisiana or to
China, by means of lottery gam
bling, the State start Lottery of
its own, so that money might be
kept at home and devoted to useful
and charitable purposes.
From the standpoint of the prac-
teal man, who takes human nature
as 1t is and makes the best of it,
there Is much to recommend this
plan. But the general public be-
lieves itself better, and insists on
other people, especially the news
papers, treating it as better than it
really is; and if you suggest a Cali
fornia State Lottery, thousands of
people who now contribute regu-
larly to foreign lottery schemes
would raise their gentle voices
against such "countenanciug of
vice. and would insist that the
evil be suppressed" knowing very
well all the time that it would not
be suppressed and that they DID
not want il suppressed. The same
public hypocrisy shows itself In
the matter of the great social evil,
whenever a proposition is made to
regulate it by law, and make it less
hurtful by publicly acknowledging
its existence and the practical i'm
possibility of suppressing it.
Public hypocracy our correspond
ent would find a very difficult
thing to deal with, if he tried his
hand at it Enthusiastically.
| The above extract puts the ques-
ton plainly, and it tells the facts
exactly as they are. If gambling
is to be carried on in Nevada let it
be so regulated that the State will
derive the largest possible benefit
If the Legislature does not pass
the Lottery bill. the people of this
State will have cause to regret it
before the next LEGISLATURE meets.
A few large prizes have fallen into
this State from New Orleans, and
it has started a craze that no power
can check. The only counter
move left at our disposal is State
Lottery.
THE GOVERNORS VETO.
| The Governor will veto the Lot
| terry bill. He can do nothing else
1t is the duty of the Legislature to
pass it over his head. Men say
that the State needs lottery, but
they cannot exactly see how to
reach the matter. With the Law
against selling lottery tickets re-
pealed, there is no penalty. There
is no penalty anyhow, except on the
books, as the law has been a dead
letter ever since it was passed
With no penalty, and if the bill i;
passed over the veto of the Gov
ernor, it becomes law under The
Constitution. The APPEAL mas i
from good authority that the Gov
ernor looks upon tie bill as some
thing needed in this State, but vii
veto it from a sense of obligation
to the Constitution.
, The passage of the bill, despit
. his veto, makes it a law, and Cor
stitutionally q law.
i There is not thinking man i
. the State bat would like to see irri
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